Glove-fastening



(No Model.)

W. S. RICHARDSON.

GLOVE FASTENING.

No. 399,162. Patented Mar. 5, 1889.

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\YILLIAM S. RICHARDSON, OF BOS'lON, MASSACl-lUSlal'll'llS, ASSIUNOR TO THE BALL AND SOCKET FASTENER COBIPANY, OF NJXSHUA. Nl llV HAMPSHIRE.

GLOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 899,162, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed May 26, 1888. fierial No. 275,229. (No modcLl T ail whom it 72m (SON/66PM: 7 cientlv to permit them to he moved inward Be it known that, I, \VILLIAM S. RICHARD- toward each other to contract the size of the SON, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and ball. The ends Z) of these sections are prefer- State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United ably not brought together, and there is a hole, 5 5 States, have invented a new and useful Im- [1,f0l'll19ll to receive an eyelet or fastening, provement in Fastenings for Gloves and other extending from the cap and either integral Articles, of which the following is afulhelear, therewith or not, as desired, whereby the and exact description, reference being'had to spring-hall secured to the cap. the accompanying drawings, forming a part In Figs. 13 and ill have representedaeom- 6o 10. of this specification, in explaining its nature. pressihlehalhwhieh, preferably, is made from The invention relates to a fastening for a solid hall by cutting slits across the same, gloves and otherartieles, onememher of which wherehy it is divided into four parts or seecomprises a compressible hall held upon one tions. This solid hall has an integral shank, surface of the material in the cavity of the cap which extends through the holein the washer 6 5 placed upon the other surface of the material, and is upset upon the cap. the hall and cap being united, and the other The hall-receiving member or section of the memherof which comprises a receiving-device fastening is made from a hlank or plate, G,of consisting, essentially, of a flat plate having the shape suhstantiall as shown in Fig.15. an upwardlyextending sleeve or ring, which It has formed in it the small hole 0 and the 70 is drawn in to form an opening somewhat-less larger hole, and the metal about this larger in size than the size of thohall memher when hole drawn outward or upward from the expanded. plate sufficiently to Form a sleeve, 0 the open- Referring to the drawings, Figures 1 to 4, ing' a" of which is of the least diameter of its inclusive, represent the cap of the hall. membore. This sleeve is represented as extend- 7 her of thetastening'; Figs. and (l, the washer ing upward from the flange and the fastenused therewith. Figs], S,thandldillustrate ing has an extension, 0, which receives the the manner of making the compressible hall. eape velet or other device, a, for fastening it Fi s. 1i and i2 are detail views of the eyelet to the material. The opening is of a size used in securing it to the cap. l igs. iii and slightly less than the expaniiled hall, and to 3o '1 -l show another form of compressible hall. secure the parts together the hall is placedin Figs. laiiolS. inclusive.illustrate the l)allre- 'the opening and pressed against the upper eeiving' member of the fastening; and l igs. ed 'e ol the sleeve and contracted or 0on1- Hl and 20 show the two memhers of the tastpressed sn l'li :-ientl v to permit ittohe forced hecning together, Fig. 20 also illustrating the low the upper edge of the sleeve into the cav- Lil 3 5 eompressihle hall as secured to the cap by a itv beneath the opening, when it expands antaek or singldprongml fastening instead of a toma-tieallv, and thus serves to secure thetwo nap-eyelet. parts or sections oi the Fastening together.

A represenlsthe compressiblehull member llavingthus fullydeserihed nrvinvention, l

ot the fastening. It comprises the eompressiclaim and desire to secure hv Letters Patent 4o hie hall a, hold to one surface of the material of the United States lrv the cap o upon the other surface of the 1. '[n a fastening device, the inemher eomniateriahthe hall being united to the cap and prising a compressible hall adapted to he the material preferably being drawn into the placed upon one surface of the material of the cavity of the rap h a washer or flange, i glove or other article to which it is attached, 9 45 PlHCOd next the hall. l have represented as and a cap upon the opposite surface of said one form of eompressihle hall a hollow hall material, the hall heing seeured to the cap and made from a hlank shaped substantially as 3 held. in its cavity by a fasteningexteni'lingrepresented in Fig. 7-that is, it has foul-oval from the hall through the material to theeap, extension s, which are shaped to produce v01 f Sllllfsliitlllllitlljf as described 50 nearly a flattened sphere, the four parts or 2. The comhinatimi of thememher of a fasti sent ions heing separated trom each other sut'til ening, consisting of a compressible hall, (I, a

and the ear 0 by which it is secured to the material, substantially as described.

4. The combination of the compressible ball a, the cap a, the crowned washer a and a stud I 5 or eyelet connecting the ball and washer with the cap, substantially as described.

\VILLIAM S. RICHARDSON.

Vitnesses:

F. F. RAYMOND, 2d, E. P. SMALL. 

